2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
11 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
12 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
16 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
17 and Cancel is now Revert.
18 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
19 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
23 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
27 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
28 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
30 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
31 (reported by Serban Udrea).
32 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files so give translations; see
33 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
37 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
39 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
41 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
44 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
48 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
50 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
54 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
55 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
56 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
60 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
61 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
63 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
65 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
69 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
70 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
74 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
75 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
76 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
77 (requested by Andras Mohari).
81 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
85 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
86 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
90 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
91 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
96 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
97 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
101 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
102 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
103 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
107 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
108 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
112 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
113 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
114 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
115 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
117 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
122 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
123 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
125 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
127 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
131 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
132 any image (saves time).
133 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
134 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
135 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
136 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
138 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
139 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
143 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
144 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
146 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
147 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
149 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
154 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
155 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
156 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
157 has stopped accepting STRING.
161 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
162 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
166 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
171 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
172 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
174 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
175 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
176 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
180 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
181 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
182 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
183 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
184 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
185 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
189 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
190 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
191 Allow '~' in globicons file.
192 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
193 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
194 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
199 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
200 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
201 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
202 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
207 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
208 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
212 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
213 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
215 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
217 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
218 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
219 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
223 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
224 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
225 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
229 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
230 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
234 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
235 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
239 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
241 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
246 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
247 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
251 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
252 their menus correctly.
253 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
258 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
259 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
260 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
264 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
265 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
269 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
273 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
276 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
278 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
279 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
280 the toggle menu items from working!
284 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
286 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
292 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
293 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
297 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
298 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
299 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
300 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
301 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
302 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
306 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
310 File groups are now saved (automatically).
311 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
315 Added Version SOAP RPC.
316 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
317 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
321 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
322 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
327 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
329 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
333 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
334 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
335 bar is displayed in the filer window.
336 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
340 Improved error reporting.
341 Improved sizing code when details are on.
345 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
346 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
347 check box and does 'Yes'.
351 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
352 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
353 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
354 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
359 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
361 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
362 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
364 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
366 Internal changes to options system:
367 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
368 filer is fully initialised).
369 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
371 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
373 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
374 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
375 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
376 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
380 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
381 now reclaims the selection.
382 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
383 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
388 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
389 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
390 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
391 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
392 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
396 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
397 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
399 Code tidying in various places.
403 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
404 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
409 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
410 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
414 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
415 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
416 edit the file, not the file itself!
417 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
421 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
422 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
423 (recommended by Jens Finke).
424 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
425 of the SOAP working draft.
426 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
427 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
428 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
433 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
434 it was in the displayed area before.
436 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
439 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
440 winking effect until the window actually appears.
444 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
445 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
446 Kristian A. Rink and others).
448 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
449 selection (Andras Mohari).
453 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
457 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
461 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
462 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
463 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
467 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
471 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
473 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
474 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
475 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
479 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
480 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
485 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
486 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
487 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
491 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
495 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
499 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
500 replaced by a Restart button.
504 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
505 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
509 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
513 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
517 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
518 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
519 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
523 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
524 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
526 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
527 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
528 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
532 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
533 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
538 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
540 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
541 (requested by Graham Borland).
542 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
543 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
544 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
548 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
549 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
550 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
551 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
555 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
556 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
557 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
558 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
559 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
560 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
561 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
562 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
563 - Lots of code tidying.
568 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
569 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
573 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
575 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
577 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
581 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
582 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
586 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
587 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
591 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
592 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
596 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
597 option to access it directly.
601 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
602 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
603 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
607 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
608 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
609 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
610 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
611 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
612 when the filer is run.
616 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
617 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
618 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
623 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
627 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
628 title bar (Stephen Watson).
632 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
634 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
638 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
642 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
643 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
644 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
649 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
650 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
651 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
652 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
653 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
654 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
655 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
659 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
663 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
664 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
668 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
669 of possible actions (Taras).
670 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
672 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
673 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
677 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
682 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
686 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
689 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
690 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
694 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
695 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
697 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
699 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
700 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
701 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
702 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
706 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
710 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
714 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
718 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
723 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
724 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
726 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
730 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
734 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
735 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
736 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
740 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
741 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
742 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
747 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
748 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
749 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
753 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
755 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
760 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
765 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
769 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
770 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
774 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
776 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
777 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
781 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
785 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
786 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
790 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
791 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
795 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
796 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
798 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
800 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
804 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
808 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
809 (requested by Jim Knoble).
813 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
817 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
822 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
823 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
827 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
831 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
835 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
837 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
838 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
842 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
843 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
847 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
848 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
849 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
853 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
854 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
858 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
859 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
861 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
863 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
867 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
868 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
869 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
871 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
872 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
874 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
876 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
877 and the default size with no details.
881 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
882 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
886 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
891 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
896 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
900 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
905 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
906 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
910 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
914 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
915 the button to run it does.
916 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
917 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
918 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
922 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
923 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
924 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
928 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
932 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
933 and panels into icon.c.
937 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
938 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
939 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
940 and Vincent Lefèvre).
944 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
946 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
948 Updated the documentation.
952 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
953 up if they're too small.
957 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
959 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
961 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
966 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
967 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
971 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
972 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
976 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
977 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
978 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
983 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
988 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
992 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
993 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
998 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1003 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1004 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1008 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1009 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1013 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1017 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1021 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1025 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1026 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1029 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1030 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1035 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1036 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1037 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1038 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1043 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1044 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1046 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1048 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1049 for non-applications.
1053 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1054 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1059 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1063 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1064 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1066 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1070 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1071 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1075 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1076 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1080 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1081 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1085 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1086 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1088 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1089 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1093 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1094 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1096 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1100 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1101 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1104 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1108 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1109 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1113 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1117 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1118 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1121 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1122 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1126 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1130 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1135 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1139 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1140 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1145 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1150 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1154 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1156 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1158 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1159 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1161 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1163 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1164 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1168 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1169 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1170 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1172 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1173 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1177 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1181 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1182 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1186 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1190 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1191 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1193 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1196 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1197 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1198 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1202 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1203 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1208 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1213 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1215 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1218 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1220 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1221 sensible shape itself now.
1223 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1224 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1225 file at all, just a reused inode!
1226 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1227 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1228 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1232 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1236 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1237 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1242 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1243 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1247 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1251 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1252 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1256 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1261 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1265 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1266 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1270 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1271 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1272 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1273 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1274 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1278 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1279 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1280 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1281 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1282 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1286 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1287 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1288 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1292 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1294 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1295 python's portable system.
1296 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1297 set the LANG variable.
1301 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1302 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1304 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1306 Made a few updates to the manual.
1310 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1311 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1313 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1315 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1316 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1320 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1321 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1325 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1326 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1331 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1332 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1333 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1337 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1338 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1342 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1343 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1347 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1348 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1350 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1351 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1352 open... (Denis Manente).
1356 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1360 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1362 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1363 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1364 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1366 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1368 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1370 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1371 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1376 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1377 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1378 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1382 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1383 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1387 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1391 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1395 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1396 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1397 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1401 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1402 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1403 between pinboards...
1405 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1406 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1407 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1411 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1414 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1415 window (Denis Manente).
1417 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1418 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1422 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1423 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1424 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1428 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1431 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1432 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1434 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1439 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1440 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1442 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1446 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1447 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1449 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1451 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1456 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1457 the icon points to as well as its name.
1459 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1460 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1464 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1465 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1466 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1467 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1471 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1475 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1476 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1477 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1481 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1482 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1484 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1485 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1488 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1489 the item after the drag.
1491 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1492 showing where the file really is.
1496 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1497 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1502 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1503 warning is displayed if so.
1505 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1509 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1510 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1511 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1512 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1515 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1516 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1517 works like the panels.
1521 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1522 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1523 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1524 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1525 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1529 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1530 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1531 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1532 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1534 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1539 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1543 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1544 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1547 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1548 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1550 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1553 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1554 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1555 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1556 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1558 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1560 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1561 slightly. Updated the manual.
1563 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
1564 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
1567 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
1568 or bottom panel to make room.
1572 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
1577 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
1578 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
1579 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
1580 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
1581 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
1585 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
1587 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
1588 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
1590 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
1594 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
1595 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
1599 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
1603 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
1605 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
1610 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
1611 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
1613 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
1617 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
1618 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
1619 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
1623 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
1624 rewriting the panel system.
1628 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
1631 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
1632 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
1636 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
1637 (suggested by James Kermode).
1641 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
1642 than as a full path.
1644 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
1646 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
1647 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
1648 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
1652 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
1653 mounted/unmounted state changed.
1657 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
1658 rename something onto another filesystem.
1662 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
1664 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
1665 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
1669 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
1673 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
1676 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
1677 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
1679 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
1682 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
1687 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
1688 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
1689 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
1691 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
1692 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
1694 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
1695 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
1700 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
1701 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
1706 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
1707 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
1708 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
1710 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
1711 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
1712 of the 'missing image' image.
1716 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
1718 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
1720 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
1725 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
1726 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
1727 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
1728 its name into another program.
1730 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
1734 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
1736 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
1737 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
1738 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
1740 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
1741 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
1742 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
1745 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
1746 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
1750 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
1751 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
1752 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
1756 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
1757 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
1758 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
1762 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
1763 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
1764 and position the icons directly.
1768 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
1773 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
1774 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
1775 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
1779 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
1783 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
1784 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
1788 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
1793 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
1797 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
1798 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
1799 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
1800 some versions of GTK+.
1804 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
1809 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
1810 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
1811 from a sub-sub-menu.
1813 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
1814 drawn on a log scale.
1818 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
1819 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
1820 happy with the UI yet though...
1822 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
1823 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
1824 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
1828 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
1829 by Stephen Harrison).
1831 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
1833 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
1834 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
1835 standard types are in Choices.
1836 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
1838 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
1839 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
1840 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
1845 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
1846 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
1847 shell command minibuffer.
1851 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
1852 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
1853 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
1854 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
1855 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1857 Default search path for Choices is now:
1858 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
1860 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
1861 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
1862 buffering so all this will get changed then...
1866 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
1867 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
1871 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
1872 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
1873 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
1878 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
1879 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
1880 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
1883 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
1885 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
1886 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
1887 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
1889 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
1890 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
1894 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
1895 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
1896 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
1897 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
1902 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
1903 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
1904 an empty directory caused odd effects.
1906 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
1908 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
1909 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
1913 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
1914 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
1915 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
1920 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
1921 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
1924 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
1926 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
1931 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
1936 Added GNU gettext support.
1937 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
1941 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
1943 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
1945 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
1950 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
1954 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
1955 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
1957 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
1958 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
1963 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
1964 onto the directory and winks the file.
1968 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
1969 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
1970 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
1972 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
1973 instead of random values.
1974 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
1976 Applied Bernard's patch:
1977 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
1978 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
1979 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
1980 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
1981 it the RISC OS way...
1982 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
1983 alignment corrected.
1984 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
1989 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
1993 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
1994 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
1998 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
1999 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2000 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2001 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2002 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2003 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2004 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2005 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2006 in the file(1) says... box).
2009 Before the Changes file
2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2011 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2013 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2014 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2015 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2016 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2017 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD